Role of Will in Addiction and Recovery

In The Role of Will in Addictionand Recovery, Ms Boone addresses the puzzling, contradictory, and misunderstoodwill with clarity and compassion. Her wisdom and intuition breathes life andunderstanding into an abstraction that has baffled humanity for ages. Ms Boonefleshes out will and the reader consciously experiences will as a concretereality. Conscious awareness of will is the first step toward its proper use. Will is a spiritual organ. Learning right use of will is an arduous task for uson our spiritual journey. Will is a powerful spiritual tool we can usejudiciously to accomplish anything our heart desires when we come to understandit and respect its sacred nature. Ms Boone provides specific exercises designedto help the reader develop qualities of will that can be used to arrestaddictions and create a meaningful life. In a bold stroke of insight andgenius, Ms. Boone locates the specific area of the brain through which will operates. It is in this same location that addictions takeroot and become equated with other survival behaviors such as eating, breathingand procreating. This discovery provides powerful insight and believableevidence for addiction as a disease, not a moral failing.